THERE’S a part of me that likes games like this one the most. If you love the game, are obsessed with your team, and every time they play you are tormented by anxiety, then you’ll know that simply watching your team week in, week out can feel genuinely...
THIS isn’t going to be a draw. Chelsea these days are a schizophrenic fantastic car crash of a side. Liverpool are nigh-on the best team in the world but one that’s just taken a disconcerting beating. The betting has The Reds as strong favourites and rightly so....
LIVERPOOL are almost too perfect. At times the football is so precious that it feels like it’s inevitable that it will eventually be stolen from us. When you’re in love with a beautiful football team, it can be hard. Take Sadio Mane’s achingly delicious equaliser...
“FOOTBALL is fantastic when it’s a morning match…” (Frank Sidebottom, “Football Is Really Fantastic” – 1983) I’ve quoted the late great Chris Sievey (aka Frank Sidebottom) before for this column. I love Chris/Frank, a man out of and ahead of his time, but he’s...
SOMETIMES I think I’m just wishing my life away. Last season has done strange things to me. Maybe you’re the same. I’m catching myself wanting the year to move along faster because I’m impatient to find out how this all ends up for the Mighty Reds. It’s funny but I’m...
A FRENETIC start to the season has finally eased. Over the past week, Liverpool were able to rest weary early-season limbs for a full seven days following the important win over Southampton. We are only two league games into the new campaign but already it feels like...
IT’S very early into a league season to be talking about “must-win” league games. Southampton away is a must-win game for Liverpool. And yet… And yet, isn’t this all really the false construct of a man or group of men deemed it must become this way? Sheikh Mansour and...
DID you know the Super Cup was invented by a Dutch journalist in 1972? He pitched the idea to UEFA and after some deliberation they eventually went “what the hell, let’s do it”. “A super cup, you say…” I like the idea that early...
I’VE always felt that the first game of a new season is the most special. I’ll bore on about it at the beginning of each new campaign. The first fixture is the one to be most eagerly anticipated. There’s something timelessly pure about the moment just before the first...
“OVER and over and over and over, “Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal…” That song by Hot Chip. Can’t get it out of my head. My head is cluttered, my swede is cabbaged. Buzzing, full of noise, full of songs. I’ll be in Madrid. Not sure where yet. You may find...
The Anfield Wrap’s post-match reaction podcast after Southampton 2 Liverpool 3, a result that puts Liverpool 8 points clear at the top of the Premier League.
John Gibbons hosts Adam Melia, Rob Gutmann and Steve Graves.
